Post subject: Mariinsky dancers in Barcelona these days? Is it possible?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:59 am

Joined: Sat Dec 15, 2001 12:01 amPosts: 223Location: Barcelona, Spain

I am a bit confused, I apologize for not knowing very well how it works with these Russian Companies, but can any of you inform me if the following is true?

They say that the Russian Imperial Ballet will perform in Barcelona Swan Lake, Carmina Burana, Sherezade and Bolero, starting from March 24 and up to April 8th and according to the information found in this culture web site the cast comes from the Mariinsky:

Carolina, do you know if this is part of a tour of Spain or whether it is a one off series of performances? As a massive fan of Taranda's I would love to go regardless of who is dancing, but so close to Easter I feel it may be impossible to get a flight at short notice. Anyone out there got any idea how long approximately it would take to drive from London to Barcelona?

Last edited by Cassandra on Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:17 am, edited 2 times in total.

Asturias in May sounds wonderful and I would love to see the Goleizovsky Prince Igor again. If this is part of a tour I could perhaps make it a holiday. I can't read much Spanish, so could you tell me if a promoters name is mentioned anywhere please?

I have had a great Saturday afternoon of a week full of dance –in the morning I saw some auditions for Ángel Corella’s “Ballet de España” and the day after Alain Platel’s Vsprs-

But as far as the Russian Imperial Ballet is concerned I must say that I liked it, their choreography of Ravel’s Bolero surprised me as I thought that it was not possible to exceed the magic of Bejart’s one but even if I still like it more I have to recognize that the Russian Company made an amazing ballet with the choreography of Nikolay Androsov.

Sherezade was also good and about Carmina Burana I liked how it started and finished but the development was a bit boring for me.

I’m sorry it’s rather difficult to find the words to express myself in English but I wanted to let you, and specially Cassandra, know about.

I heard from two different attendants that their Lake has also been very good, they said that the principal ballerina was an outstanding dancer, the pity is that the stage of that theater is too small to perform the classics.

On Saturday afternoon the theater was nearly full and audience applauded the ballet very much and then they say that classics are not appreciated in Cataluña!

Well Cassandra I wish you very happy days in Spain with these 3 performances scheduled and yes please let us know about, I enjoyed it a lot reading your review of Nutcracker

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